Ambulatory Nursing
A PART OF NURSING DEPARTMENTS
Ambulatory Nursing at Stanford Health Care is a multifaceted specialty, encompassing non-acute health services to patients who receive care in the outpatient setting.
Ambulatory Care Nursing utilizes evidence-based practice and unique specialty care in outpatient settings to achieve quality care, patient safety, and improve healthcare outcomes for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Ambulatory Care Nurses are skilled in facilitating comprehensive practice and multidisciplinary collaboration, as well as coordinating health services to establish and maintain nursing and clinical excellence.
Ambulatory Nurses are skilled in facilitating comprehensive practice and multidisciplinary collaboration, as well as coordinating health services to establish and maintain nursing and clinical excellence.
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Ambulatory Care Nurses are patient advocates and advisers, partnering with patients and family members to make informed decisions, achieve health goals, incorporate individual health care needs, and assist patients in navigating the healthcare system to align with treatment preferences and resources across the continuum of care.
These interactions and encounters establish long-term relationships. In addition, the flexibility of ambulatory settings in the use of telehealth technologies allows consultations and surveillance of patients to be optimally conducted. High-quality ambulatory care nursing has been shown to reduce readmissions and emergency visits from patients.
Ambulatory Care Nurses, in alignment with the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses (AAACN) scope and standards *:
- Systematically collect or supervise the collection of focused data relating to health needs and concerns of a patient, group, or population.
- Analyze assessment data to determine diagnostic statements for health promotion, health maintenance, or health-related problems or issues.
- Identify expected and/or desired outcomes in a plan of care individualized for the patient, group, or population.
- Develop a human-centered plan that identifies strategies and alternatives to attain achievable outcomes in individuals and/or populations
- Implement the identified plan of care.
- Coordinate the delivery of care within the practice setting and across health care settings.
- Employ educational strategies that promote individual, community, and population health and safety.
- Utilize current and evolving electronic information and telehealth technologies to minimize time and distance barriers to the delivery of nursing care for patients.
- Provide consultation in developing interprofessional plans of care.
- Evaluates progress toward the attainment of stated outcomes.
* Reference: American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing. (2023). Scope and standards of practice for professional ambulatory care nursing (10th ed.). American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
Ambulatory Care Nurses at Stanford Health Care provide patient care in a variety of settings and specialties, including:
- Cancer Care
- Cardiovascular Health
- Solid Organ Transplant
- GI/GI Surgery
- Neurosciences
- Orthopedics
- Clinical Advice Services
- Acute Care Surgery
- Dermatology
- Gynecology
- Medical Specialties (includes Immunology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Infectious Disease)
- Ophthalmology
- Otolaryngology/ENT
- Pain Management
- Plastic Surgery
- Primary Care
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology and Critical Care
- Urology
- Radiology/Imaging
- Interventional Platform (includes Perioperative Services, Endoscopy, and Procedural Areas)
- Emergency Services
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Locations all over the Greater Bay Area, including those listed below. Please visit our careers page for new job opportunities.
- Redwood City
- Palo Alto
- Portola Valley
- Los Gatos
- San Jose
- Castro Valley
- Emeryville
- Pleasanton/Livermore/Dublin (Tri-Valley)
- Newark